Why so much negative attitude this gen ?

[MattAAron]

I think for a few reasons there is so much crazyness

1) First I don't think the Wii has anything to do with the constant attacks/war you see everywhere, for the most part, the Wii is doing its own thing... It all comes down to 360 vs PS3... which comes to #2:

2) Playstation having a head start each generation:

PS1: 1995
N64: 1996
Dreamcast: 1998

PS2: 2000
Xbox: 2001
Gamecube: 2001

The headstart helped them tremendously in dominating the console wars the last 2 generations. This time around, they were last. Which gave the Xbox360 a head start to get even.

3) Hardware, The 360 & PS3 are so samiliar powerwise that people will obviously compare the 2 trying to find some little reason 1 is better then the other

4) Dead even. What we see now is the PS3 catching up, their both pretty even, and when 2 products are competiting against each other and their so close in sales, your only going to get a huge flame war about everything.

If the 360 came out and completly blew the PS3 out of the water and had more then 5x the sales of the PS3, all these flamewars wouldn't be happening. But no, saleswise PS3/360 are pretty much even, Hardwarewise they are pretty even, launch wise they are pretty even. Cost wise they are pretty much even. Your bound to have ppl explode in anger against each other defending their purchase.

Like I said, if the competition was uneven, PS3 being 10x more powerful, or 360 selling 10x more, etc, things wouldn't be like this...but things are so close we're bound to argue.